The hacktivist group Anonymous, engaged in electronic
warfare against Islamic State, has declared ‘total war’ on the terror group following
the deadly attacks in France, while pledging to hunt down every single
supporter of the jihadist group online.

The combat mission to root out terrorism propaganda and
recruitment networks from the internet was announced via a YouTube video, where
a spokesman wearing the group’s symbol – the iconic Guy Fawkes mask – promised
to “launch the biggest operation ever” against Islamic State (IS, formerly
ISIS/ISIL).

Pledging to use their skills to “unite humanity,” the group
warned terrorists to “expect massive cyber attacks.”

“Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down,” the
spokesman said. “You should know that we will find you and we will not let you
go.”

“War is declared. Get prepared,” the group said in the video
post. “The French people are stronger than you and will come out of this
atrocity even stronger.”

A loosely associated international network of hacktivists,
known as the Anonymous group, have been defending French cyber-borders
following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January under the #OpISIS online
campaign.

Throughout the year, the group has tracked, hacked,
unmasked, and reported thousands of Twitter accounts that were run by or
associated with IS members.

The hactivists’ work this year resulted in the dismantling
some 149 IS-linked websites, according to a recent report in Foreign Policy.
Anonymous also flagged roughly 101,000 Twitter accounts and 5,900 propaganda
videos.

Anonymous also announced this week that they were able to
trace a pro-IS hacking group CyberCaliphate that uses at least at least 10
Twitter handles to a single IP address in Kuwait.

A hacker with Anonymous, speaking to Epoch Times revealed
that IS accounts have a life span of about eight hours before Twitter suspends
them. After 10 suspensions, the hacktivist claims, “they disappear for a few
weeks, only to re-emerge,” under a different name, yet with CyberCaliphate
banner and with the same IP address.

While the CyberCaliphate collective claims to be behind a
number of cyber attacks, the activist told the Epoch Times that pro-IS hackers
fake most of their attacks.